US Patent Issued to BASF COATINGS on March 18 for "Process to prepare a structured article using a removable protective layer and structured article obtained by said process" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,870, issued on March 18, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany).

"Process to prepare a structured article using a removable protective layer and structured article obtained by said process" was invented by Sven Olle Krabbenborg (Munster, Germany) and Tim Buscher (Munster, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a process for producing a structured article (A1M1) in which a material (M1) including at least one micro- and/or nanostructured surface (SU1) containing a plurality of micro-scale and/or nano-scale surface elements is covered with an at least partially cured coating layer (C2) to provide a ...